Saltcoats - On This Day In History

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
16 FEBRUARY 1920

FOOTBALL – SCOTTISH JUNIOR ASSOCIATION TEAM FOR IRVINE

At a meeting of the Scottish Junior Selection Committee held on Saturday night the following team was selected to oppose the Western League at Meadow Park, Irvine, on Saturday:-

Dempster (Newarthill Thistle); Bethune (Petershill); Welsh (Muirkirk Athletic); Orr (Burnbank Athletic); Henderson (Larkhall Thistle, captain); Murray (Girvan Athletic); Cameron (Duntocher Athletic); Dunn (St. Anthony’s); Picken (Dundee Violet); Kelly (Blantyre (Celtic); and Wallace (Muirkirk Athletic).

Reserve to travel, Morrison (Drongan Juniors).

The following is the side selected by the Western League:-

Langlands (Ardrossan Winton Rovers); Carroll (Kilbirnie Ladeside); McQuade (Neilston Victoria); Aitken (Kilbarchan Athletic); McLaughlan (Kilwinning Rangers); Brown (Renfrew Juniors); Bennett (Renfrew Juniors); McNay (Neilston Victoria); Cunningham (Irvine Meadow XI); Ramsay (Renfrew Juniors); and Meikle (Saltcoats Victoria).

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
17 FEBRUARY 1888

SALTCOATS SALE OF PROPERTY

The block of property at the corner of Dockhead and Green Streets, occupied by Messrs Ross & Company, ironmongers, and Mrs Hogarth, fruiterer, was sold by public roup yesterday, and was purchased by Mr Campbell, writer, for a client, at the upset price of £500.

Messrs Gilmour & Christie, had charge of the sale, and Mr Magee acted as auctioneer.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
18 FEBRUARY 1889

SALTCOATS – THEFT

A vagrant named JOHN McLEAN was at the Burgh Court on Saturday and sent 14 days to prison for stealing a knife from a shop in Countess Street.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
20 FEBRUARY 1928

TRADES EXHIBITION

On Saturday afternoon the first Trades Exhibition held in Saltcoats was opened at the Pavilion, Provost Kerr presiding over a good attendance.

The exhibition has 40 stalls, and the exhibits are of a varied and interesting character.

It will be continued for one week.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
23 FEBRUARY 1905

DEATH

CAMPBELL: At 17 Raise Street, Saltcoats, on 22nd instant, JAMES CAMPBELL, senior, in his 89th year.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
23 FEBRUARY 1852

MOURNFUL OCCURRENCE

On the morning of Thursday last the family of Mr JOHN ORR, merchant, Saltcoats, was thrown into a state of great excitement, owing to the sufferings of a fine young boy about two years of age. He was playing on the floor with a number of horse-beans, and one of them found its way into the windpipe, and so affected the poor child’s breathing as to cause asphyxia and almost suffocation.

When medical aid was procured the sufferer was considered to be so far gone that the opening of the trachea could be of no avail. He lived three-quarters of an hour only from the time his breathing was first noticed to be affected.

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
23 FEBRUARY 1905

DEATH

CAMPBELL: At 17 Raise Street, Saltcoats, on 22nd instant, JAMES CAMPBELL, senior, in his 89th year.

GLASGOW HERALD
24 FEBRUARY 1905

EX-BAILIE CAMPBELL, SALTCOATS

One of the oldest residents of Saltcoats, Bailie JAMES CAMPBELL, has just passed away.

He served in the first Town Council after the formation of the burgh, and was some years later appointed a bailie. He was a director of the Saltcoats Gas Company, and for many years was a member of the old Parochial Board. While health permitted Bailie Campbell took an active share in the public life of the town, and helped forward many notable improvements.

He was a member of the Erskine United Free Church.

On the bowling green he was at one time a well-known figure.

He was greatly respected in the town, and his death is much regretted. He was in his 89th year, and leaves a grown-up family, two of his sons being merchants in the town.

[Penny Tray]

CASUALTY OF WAR
25 FEBRUARY 1918

WILLIAM McGOUGAN

Killed in action, Private WILLIAM McGOUGAN, (37), 5/6th Battalion Cameronians – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – husband of Hannah McGougan, 10 Langlands Road, Govan, brother of Mrs William Wylie, Saltcoats, and son of Mr James and Mrs Mary McGougan, Saltcoats.

[Penny Tray]

CASUALTY OF WAR
26 FEBRUARY 1918

DAVID KELSO

Died at sea when the hospital ship GLENART CASTLE was torpedoed, Corporal DAVID KELSO, Royal Army Medical Corps, brother of Alexander, on active service in Egypt; and son of James Kelso, 11 Galloway Place, Saltcoats.

[Penny Tray]

EVENING TIMES
26 FEBRUARY 1963

BURNS BROADCASTER HAROLD WIGHTMAN DIES AT 62

Mr. Harold Wightman, the well-known Scottish broadcaster whose recording of “Tam o’ Shanter” was world famous died suddenly at his home at 6 Pollock Road, Bearsden, today. He was 62.

An Ayrshire man who served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Mr. Wightman had been employment superintendent at the Scotstoun works of Albion Motors Limited since 1939, when he joined the company from I.C.I., Ardeer.

Mr. Wightman was one of the earliest broadcasters in Scotland and has been on the air regularly ever since, especially in Burns programmes. Recordings of Burns poetry made by him have been secured by universities, schools, and radio networks all over the world, as examples of Scottish speech, and copies are in the Library of Congress in Washington.

As an amateur actor he gained the highest honours. He was a member of the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Players’ Club team which won the Scottish and British Championships in 1928, and then went on to New York to win the world championship, and with it the David Belasco Cup.

The one-act play with which they gained successes was J. M. Barrie’s “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.”

WON AGAIN

Ten years later he produced the team which won the Scottish Festival and came second in Britain.

Mr. Wightman moved to Glasgow and later to Bearsden, but he retained his connection with the Players’ Club and was their honorary president.

Chairman for many years of the Partick local employment committee, Mr. Wightman was vice-chairman of the industrial panel of the Scottish Film Council and actively associated with a number of other organisations.

He is survived by his wife, son, and daughter.

GLASGOW HERALD
27 FEBRUARY 1963

INTIMATION OF DEATH

WIGHTMAN: Suddenly at 6 Pollock Road, Bearsden, on 26 February, 1963, HAROLD LEITH, beloved husband of ANNIE DUNLOP, and father of KEITH and SHEILA.

[down south]

SATURDAY 27th FEBRUARY 1971

MEADOW SIZZLE IN THE RAIN

SALTCOATS HIT FOR SIX

IRVINE MEADOW 6 SALTCOATS VICTORIA 2

Played in driving rain this match was evenly contested until Jim Busby scored twice in the last five minutes of the first half. These two goals, coming after a long period of Saltcoats pressure, knocked the fight out of the visitors and finished the game as a contest.

After the interval Meadow dominated as Saltcoats' attack crumpled before a resolute home defence. The Irvine side really moved into top gear in the second period of the match and for lengthy spells Hay was the only player in the Meadow half.

Meadow went all out for a quick goal and, after only two minutes got the start they wanted.Bitten beat Tannoch on the left and passed to Malone, who cleverly beat two men before sending a perfect pass to the unmarked Hodgson, who had the easiest of tasks to score.

Two minutes later and Meadow almost went further ahead. Ferguson, who has been much more adventurous in attack recently, sent over a cross and Naismith's header hit the post but was cleared by Nicol.

Meadow's lead was short lived when after eleven minutes Tannoch equalised from a free kick after McCrorie had fouled Cunningham just outside the penalty area. This was exactly the same type of goal as was scored by Tannoch in the first tie at Campbell Park and as the goal which Buffs scored against Meadow last week. There would seem to be something wrong with Meadow's defensive " wall " to concede a goal three weeks in succession from the same position.

Spurred on by this score Saltcoats moved into top gear and forced Meadow to defend. The speed of Frew and the strength of Cunningham were causing the Meadow defence a lot of trouble and it was lucky for the home team that McEvoy and Renfrew were in top form.

Cunningham broke through and just as it looked as if he would put Saltcoats into the lead he had the ball taken from his feet by McEvoy.

At the other end Bitten, all out for his 30th goal of the season, tried to beat one man too many when he should have passed to Malone, and a chance was lost. But at this stage it was all Saltcoats until Jim Busby decided to take a hand in the affair.

Five minutes from half time the right winger put Meadow into the lead. He beat two defenders on the wing before cutting inside, rounding Cairns and striking the ball into the net.

Two minutes later Busby increased his side's lead when he headed in a Malone cross. The star of the first half was undoubtedly Malone who had had a hand in all three Meadow goals.

After the interval Saltcoats brought Gemmell on in place of Hughes who had been injured in a clash with Murray. After only six minutes Meadow went further ahead and again Malone had a hand in the goal. The inside left burst through the visitors' defence but was brought down in the penalty area by Thomson and McEvoy made no mistake from the spot.

After this there was only one team in it and Meadow put constant pressure on Cairns' goal. A Malone shot hit the post and then Thomson headed a Busby cross off the line. In one of the Meadow attacks Ferguson was injured and Peebles came on.

In the 30th minute Malone finally got a goal himself when he beat the Saltcoats defence to a through ball from Ronnie Bitten and hammered it past the helpless Cairns. Just after this Peebles had a strong shot saved by Cairns and Murray put a shot over the bar from 25 yards.

Ronnie Bitten scored Meadow's final goal 10 minutes from time when he headed home a cross from left-winger Jimmy Hodgson. This was the centre's 30th goal of the season and it earned him a great cheer from the fans who had braved the rain to watch the match.

Two minutes from time Frew reduced the leeway when he took a pass from Clarke and accelerated past McCrorie to shoot past Hay.

Then came the best move of the match, but one which did not bring a goal. Meadow's substitute, Jim Peebles , gathered the ball in the centre circle and went off on a run down the centre of the field. He beat five Saltcoats defenders and rounded keeper Cairns but then somehow missed the open goal. Saltcoats' right-back Thomson injured himself trying to stop Peebles and was carried from the field.

Irvine Meadow - Hay; McEvoy and Renfrew; Ferguson, McCrorie and Naismith; Busby, Murray, Bitten, Malone and Hodgson. Substitute - Peebles.

Saltcoats Victoria - Cairns; Thomson and Tannoch; Nicol, Caughey and Hughes; Young, Frew, Cunningham, Clarke and McConnell. Substitute - Gemmell.

Susan

[Penny Tray]

GLASGOW HERALD
28 FEBRUARY 1888

SALTCOATS – BUILDING OPERATIONS

For some months past the building trade has been pretty brisk, and a considerable extension of the town has taken place in the west end.

A number of new cottages have been erected in Caledonia Road, and the remainder of the ground there has been feued up to the plantation.

Facing the railway at the Halfway House a new street is being formed on which two blocks of houses are built.

Yesterday a new iron bridge was placed over the Glasgow and South-Western Railway to connect Caledonia Road with Ardrossan Road opposite the Gaelic Church, and gives easy access to the shore at South Beach.

At the same time residents in Ardrossan Road will by this bridge have a more direct route to the new station of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

The bridge has been put up at the expense of Lord Eglinton. It was commenced a few weeks ago, but it was found that one of the pillars encroached some 18 inches on the footpath at Ardrossan Road, and as the Police Commissioners objected to this the pillars were taken down and set back.

At Winton Circus, facing the shore, some handsome new villas are erected, and several other feus taken off.

A new street is being formed on line with the R.C. School at the junction of Union Street and Springvale Place, and several blocks of workmen’s houses are being put up.

In Wellpark Road adjoining, several new properties have been lately added.